04, LTT1I0SIA.D.E. 



*1215 a, Aphyle intorta. (Plate XLTII. fig. 9.) 



Aphyle intorta, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 402 (1910). 



9 . Head, thorax, and abdomen purplish crimson. Fore wing 

 purplish crimson, a large pale yellow wedge-shaped patch on 

 terminal area from just below apex to tornus, its upper edge 

 indented by the crimson area being angled on vein 6 and its inner 

 edge defined by a darker line ; faint slightly oblique dark ante- 

 medial and postmedial lines, a subterminal series of minute crimson 

 points on the veins of yellow area. Hind wing paler crimson. 



Rah. Costa Rica, Sixola R. (Schaus), type t ? i» U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. Exp. ii millim. 



*12lo b. Aphyle incisa. 



Prumala incisa, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 25, pi. 4. f. 17 (1909). 

 9 . Head and thorax brown tinged with crimson ; pectus and 

 le»s white, the fore femora crimson above, and the tibiae crimson 

 and brown at base; abdomen crimson, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing purple-brown tinged with crimson ; the costal edge 

 yellow; an indistinct dark antemedial line, bent outwards below 

 eosta, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; a faint dark discoidal bar 

 and oblique line from beyond lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 the terminal area yellow defined on inner side by crimson, narrow 

 from below apex to vein 1, where it is strongly angled inwards, 

 then forming a wedge-shaped patch with sinuous inner edge to 

 tornus. Hind wing crimson, the cilia yellow; the underside paler 

 with some whitish at base and through the cell to near termen. 



Hah. Brazil, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa (Klages), type t § i» 

 Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 10 millim. 



*121"> c. Aphyle conifera. (Plate XLIII. fig. 10.) 

 Aphyle conifera, Dogn. H.'t. Nouv. Am. Sud, v. p. 9 (1912). 



9. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey -brown tinged with crimson; 

 palpi white in front ami crimson above ; pectus, legs, ventral surface 

 of abdomen, and anal tuft white, the fore and mid tarsi tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing crimson suffused with brownish grey ; the 

 costal edge white with a bright crimson streak helow it; an 

 indistincl brownish antemedial line, obsolete towards eosta and 

 excurved above inner margin ; a faint rather oblique and slightly 

 sinuous brownish medial line; a conical semihvaline patch defined 

 by brown and crimson on termen between veins .1 and 2, its 

 apex arising below middle of vein 7, with two minute crimson 

 points above vein 1 and one above vein :!; cilia crimson with yellow 

 tips towards apex, crimson towards tornus. Hind wing pale 

 crimson; cilia yellow; the underside white faintly tinged with 

 crimson excepl on costal area. 



Huh. Colombia, .Medina (Fassl), type f 9 >'i Coll. Dogniii. 

 /•.'./■//. "ill millim. 



